As the news broke on the college-admissions scandal, Bruce Holsinger says he felt shocked, both as a parent and a professor. As an author, however, he understood how parents could cross so many lines. Years before parents including Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman made headlines, Mr. Holsinger began writing his own drama of a school-admissions scandal.
In “The Gifted School,” out July 2, Mr. Holsinger, a 51-year-old professor at the University of Virginia, explores just how far parents will go to achieve the status of a prestigious education for their children. “Over-parented kids, over-invested parents, a cutthroat selection process, and the rest kind of writes itself,” Mr. Holsinger says in an interview.
